We Are Hunted etc.

Chris Salmon has a good piece for the Guardian today on a couple of interesting looking mp3 aggregators.

I particularly like the look of the Australian based We Are Hunted, which compiles the top 99 songs of the week, month, year into a very user friendly and good looking playlist for your listening pleasure. As Salmon points though, there is a propensity for some dodgy remix to turn up instead of the original track. I’m currently listening to a version of Empire of the Sun’s excellent “We Are The People”, which is fairly shitty. Nevertheless, a good service overall.

The Free Music Archive (with the amusing tagline - “it’s not just free music; it’s good music”) looks decent too. At the very least they deserve props for finding this hilarious image and alerting the world to the existence of an Aussie band called, tastefully, “The Poo Touchers”. Lovely.